“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”
“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”
‘It could be that God has not absconded but spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of its hem.’
Annie Dillard via Katherine May
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
— Dante Alighieri
Seen at the Substack of Philosophors. Though I have long known these lines, I think I have just found the most informative explanation in Prue Shaw's Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity.
